There are 99 women serving in the current 113th Congress. Florida Democrat Alex Sink would become the 100th woman in Congress, setting a new record, if she wins a special election today in the Tampa Bay-area 13th District. Sink, Florida’s...

Louisiana Republican Vance McAllister is going to Congress after winning a special election yesterday. McAllister, a wealthy businessman and political newcomer, defeated another Republican, state Sen. Neil Riser, by 60 percent to 40 percent in a runoff election yesterday in the 5th District,...

They’ve worked against each other in recent weeks, but New Jersey’s two most popular politicians found some common ground today. U.S. Senator-elect Cory Booker, a Democrat, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, shared a stage today at a...

That’s the share of the vote that President Barack Obama received in the 2012 election in Massachusetts’ 5th District, a Democratic bastion near Boston that’s holding a special primary election today. The winner of the seven-candidate Democratic race is highly...

Republicans are dominating fundraising in a field of 14 candidates seeking a vacant U.S. House seat in Louisiana. State Sen. Neil Riser, one of five Republicans running for northeastern Louisiana’s 5th District seat in a special election Oct. 19, raised...

It’s primary election day in Alabama’s 1st District, where voters will begin filling a vacancy in a Republican-leaning area in and around Mobile. The nine-candidate Republican primary probably won’t produce an outright majority-vote winner. The top two Republicans would advance...

Massachusetts election officials have set a Dec. 10 special election to determine a successor for ex-Rep. Ed Markey, who’s being sworn in to the Senate today. The determinative election probably will be the Oct. 15 Democratic primary. Five Democrats have...

That’s the share of U.S. House members in history who have served longer than Democratic Rep. Ed Markey, who’s favored to win a special Senate election today in Massachusetts. Markey, a congressman for more than 36 1/2 years, has more...

Vice President Joe Biden, right, listens while campaigning with Rep. Ed Markey, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in the Massachusetts open seat special election, left, during a rally on the University of Massachusetts campus in Dartmouth, Mass., on June 22, 2013.

Democratic Rep. Ed Markey leads Republican Gabriel Gomez by 10 percentage points ahead of tomorrow’s special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, according to a survey by Suffolk University in Boston. Markey, a member of Congress for 36 years, had 52 percent...

That’s how many people have served in both the House and Senate, according to the Senate Historical Office. There are 51 senators in the current 113th Congress who previously served in the House, according to calculations by Political Capital. Democratic...